The 2016 China Dragon Boat Race (Jintang, Chengdu) took place in Baima Lake, northeast Chengdu’s Jintang County, with the participation of 22 teams from all over the country, of which 5 were from Sichuan.

As an important celebration for the Dragon Boat Festival (also often known as the Duanwu Festival) for more than 2000 years, the event has been staged for six straight years in Jintang since 2011.

The Dragon Boat Festival (Duanwu Festival), which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month in the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, is to commemorateQu Yuan (340BC –278BC), a poet and state minister of the ancient state of Chu during the Warring States Period (475BC-221BC) in Chinese history, who drowned himself before his state fell to the invading enemy.

The customs the Chinese people usually observe for the festival include boat racing, eating Zongzi (a kind of glutinous rice dumpling stuffed with sweet or salty fillings), hanging Chinese mugwort and calamus, drinking realgar wine and wearing perfume pouches.

Jun 07, 2015

Where to buy the holiday foods for the coming Dragon Boat Festival? The 7th Chengdu Dragon Boat Festival Food Expo & Rice Dumpling Culture Fair, held June 12-21 at the Chengdu International Convention & Exhibition Center, will be a good choice for you.